>> it's not reported to us but available to us. >> okay. let me ask you this how would the newly implemented egg rule, what does that really mean for the american consumer, what can we expect? >> it means a lot. because it means that we can go now to all of the major egg facilities and we can make sure that they have very important preventative safe guards in place, including approach to rodents that keeps the rodents out of the eggs, and approach to general contination, approached to refrigeration, and an approach to testing. so that they can have confidence that the farms in the united states as you know overseen by fda with an independent look, are following things to prevent illness in the first place. >> this final rule, that's now in place, and has the effect, appliesto those farms, egg-producing farmfor 3,000 or more egg-laying hens. how many farms is that in the united states? we've heard from two today but how many are there? >> i know that there are about 600 that are 50,000 or more. >> okay. >> i think that there are several thou